Chapter 24 – Airway Management in Obesity
Abstract Obesity is a risk factor for increased difficulty in most modalities of airway management. It decreases ease and effectiveness of face mask ventilation, supraglottic airway device use and front…
Chapter 23 – The Paediatric Airway
Abstract Paediatric anaesthesia and airway management is in many ways similar to adult practice; however, deep understanding of the differences in anatomy, physiology and behavioural psychology is necessary, particularly in…
Chapter 22 – The Airway in Obstetrics
Abstract Airway management and failed intubation in the pregnant woman present unique challenges which differ from the non-pregnant patient. The provision of general anaesthesia in the obstetric population requires additional…
Chapter 20 – Front of Neck Airway (FONA)
Abstract Conventional airway management, including intubation and the various modes of lung ventilation, is usually successful. When it fails (cannot intubate, cannot ventilate/oxygenate) it is a life-threatening emergency and will…
Chapter 21 – Extubation
Abstract Extubation and emergence are high-risk phases of anaesthesia which accounted for 28% of the anaesthesia cases reported to the Fourth National Audit Project of the Difficult Airway Society and…
Chapter 18 – Expiratory Ventilation Assistance and Ventilation through Narrow Tubes
Abstract A major challenge of airway management is safe care of the patient with a narrowed airway. Small tracheal tubes offer one solution but pose a problem with ventilation. While…
Chapter 19 – Multimodal Techniques for Airway Management
Abstract As opposed to the simplistic promotion of one given technique or device, the multimodal airway management relies on the recognition that each individual approach may fail, that the maintenance…
Chapter 16 – Tracheal Intubation Using the Flexible Optical Bronchoscope
Abstract The flexible optical bronchoscope has unparalleled utility for difficult airway management and is part of every difficult airway management algorithm. The device can facilitate intubation for patients with airway…
Chapter 17 – Videolaryngoscopy
Abstract Videolaryngoscopes have been in existence for several decades but in the last decade have taken a central role in both difficult and routine airway management. During that time videolaryngoscopy…
Chapter 14 – Tracheal Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy
Abstract Direct laryngoscopy should be preceded by airway assessment and discussing rescue strategies with assisting staff. The initial plan and rescue techniques should be based on an understanding of normal…
